One original owner (my best friend) who recently passed on & left this to be sold for his favorite charity - SheIsSafe.

He had the ball in his possession for at least 40 years. One of his close friends was "Ziggy" to whom the autograph was addressed. Ziggy was a relative of Joe DiMaggio & also lived here in the SF Bay Area.

We are also including 2 newspaper clippings dated Oct 29, 1998 and Nov 25, 1998.

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